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The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study is to explore how Jamaican left-behind spouses experience and interpret the meaning of prolonged marital separation due to overseas employment, with particular attention to perceptions of choice versus constraint and how these perceptions are reflected in emotional strain, coping, resilience, and marital functioning. This study focuses on married spouses within the Jamaican context, recognizing that experiences of separation may vary across relationship forms, but centers on marriage due to its cultural, legal, and institutional significance in migration-related family arrangements. The study will include 12-15 legally [KC1] married spouses residing in Jamaica whose partners are employed overseas and who have experienced at least 12 months of separation. The study employs a phenomenological interviews with a supplemental diary component collected over 6-8 weeks. Diary entries are analyzed alongside interview data to capture participants' contemporaneous reflections and short-term experiential variability related to perceptions of choice, constraint, and coping during prolonged marital separation within a defined window, rather than to examine developmental change or temporal trajectories. Detailed ethical procedures, including informed consent, confidentiality protections, data security, participants' right to withdraw without penalty, and responses to potential participant distress, will be outlined in Chapter Three in accordance with institutional IRB requirements. Need Assignment Help?
Based on the content above, suggest recruitment source(s) and 2-3 inclusion/exclusion criteria (age range, location within Jamaica, relationship status verification, separation definition). Provide recent peer-reviewed references between 2021-2025 along with in-text citations.